Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It need take no longer than it takes you to interview a pupil and make a job offer . |
| 2 | I mean in the time is takes you to do a sketch you can draw accurately |
| 3 | did she not take you to have a look ? |
| 4 | How long would it take you to fire a gun ? |
| 5 | How long does it take you to consume a meal ? |
| 6 | I think you should take her to see a doctor . |
| 7 | " Ownership " is a word of many meanings , but in the present context we can take it to signify a title to a subject matter … |
| 8 | She sighed , wondering why the mere thought of it made her feel depressed , then she turned to Silas and said hastily , ‘ So there 's no need for you to worry about taking me to see a kiwi . |
| 9 | He took me to see a man who had the whole story . |
| 10 | When I was six my grandparents took me to see a film which I was told to observe closely because I would learn lessons about good behaviour and deportment from one of the juvenile characters . |
| 11 | He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps . |
| 12 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 13 | I will come for you tomorrow evening and take you to sign a confession in front of witnesses . ’ |
| 14 | But later he had talked to her and she had told him how she , too , wanted , indeed was determined to be an actress one day , and he had looked quite serious , and offered to take her to watch a rehearsal and meet the cast . |
| 15 | When we talk of a ‘ mindless occupation ’ , for instance , I take it to describe a situation in which activity is possible without having to think and feel about the meaning of the relatedness between the person and whatever the objects are that he manipulates . |